All Screen articles in 12 December 2003 – Page 4
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Manderlay wins lion's share of Eurimages funding
Lars von Trier's Manderlay, Philippe Haim's La Vraie Vie Des Dalton, Lajos Koltai's Fateless and Lieven Debrauwer's Confituur are among 11 European co-productions to share Euros 4.1m production support from Strasbourg-based Eurimages in its latest round of funding.Manderlay received the largest amount - Euros 725,000 - as one of four ...
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Tribeca Film Institute launches ethnic minority programme
The Tribeca FilmInstitute has launched Tribeca All Access, a programme to support ethnicminority film-makers that will make its debut at the 2004 Tribeca FilmFestival.The programmeaims to facilitate networking and funding opportunities through project meetingswith industry players including producers, sales agents and equity financiers.Directors ofapproximately 20 fiction projects in development and ...
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Koltai, Golan ready WWII dramas
Oscar-nominated cinematographer Lajos Koltai (Taking Sides, Malena) and veteran Israeli producer-director Menahem Golan have both announced feature projects about the devastating impact of the Nazis on Jews in Europe.Koltai will be making his directorial debut with adaptation of Nobel Prize winner Imre Kertesz's novel Fateless which will begin an 11-week ...
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Gregersen Family epic gets Danish greenlight
Denmark's most prolific independent producer Regner Grasten has got the green light for his long cherished four-hour feature, The Gregersen Family, based on the bestselling books by Christian Kampmann (1939-88).The Danish Film Institute awarded the film a substantial $1.37m for its $4.2m budget. Additional funding comes from broadcaster TV2, Buena ...
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Peckos, Myerson unveil new distribution venture Dada Films
Former FirstLook executives MJ Peckos and Bob Myerson have launched Dada Films, a domestictheatrical distribution and worldwide marketing company that will be based inLos Angeles."We canstrategically position a film for sale at a film festival, oversee domestic andinternational sales, or - if appropriate - can release the film itselfdomestically and ...
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BVI promotes four to vice president in marketing/publicity dept
Buena VistaInternational (BVI) has promoted four marketing and publicity executives to therank of vice president.Executivedirector of international publicity Maggie Todd (left) has been promoted to vicepresident of international publicity while executive director of promotionsDonald Evans (right) becomes vice president of marketing and promotions.Executivedirector of creative services - marketing Mari Gastineau ...
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Balsan takes over from Powell as EFA chairman
After eight years in the post, the UK's Nik Powell is handing over the reins of the chairmanship of the European Film Academy (EFA) to French producer Humbert Balsan.Speaking at the European Film Awards ceremony, Powell quipped that he expected Balsan - who has been one of the EFA deputy ...
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Asian film industry mourns Duangkamol Limcharoen
Thai producer Duangkamol Limcharoen, a leading figure in the pan-Asian filmmaking movement, has died following a brief fight against cancer. She was 39 years old.A former TV producer, Limcharoen founded Thai film company Cinemasia in 2000 with the aim of producing pan-Asian co-productions and expanding the market for Asian films. ...
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FX expert Anderson to receive ASC Presidents Award
Howard AAnderson Jr, who created visual effects for hundreds of films including SomeLike It Hot, Heaven Can Wait and Blazing Saddles, will receive the American Society of Cinematographers PresidentsAward.The honour ispresented each year to an individual who has made extraordinary contributionsto advancing the art of film-making.Anderson willcollect his award at ...
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Rising producer hits back amid backer dispute
Bobby Bedi, the producer of big budget Indian feature The Rising, has spoken out following reports that Indian conglomerate Sahara India has pulled out of the film.Sahara issued a statement last month saying that the company was withdrawing its association with The Rising because Aishwarya Rai - who is a ...
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Nemo finds $45.9m in stunning weekend for BVI
Powered byrecord industry openings in Japan and Italy at the weekend, Buena VistaInternational's (BVI) Finding Nemo surged through international waters and raised its internationalrunning total by $45.9m to $283.4m.The animated hitalso became Disney's third film to pass $600m in worldwide ticket sales behind TheLion King and PiratesOf The Caribbean and ...
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Revolutions worldwide total passes $400m
The Matrix Revolutions' worldwide total inched past $400m at the weekend asthe film added just over $6m with 996,503 admissions from 4,682 screens in 59territories.According to Warner BrosInternational, the film has now grossed an estimated $265.1m after five weeksin the international arena and $400.1m worldwide.Looney Tunes: Back InAction took $3.5m ...
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Tallinn takes off with 300-strong programme
The 7th annual Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (22 Nov-7 Dec) screened 300 films from 50 countries this year, making it the largest edition since its inception despite the ongoing struggle to finance the event. This year the festival also joined up with the second annual Baltic ...
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Rialto plans 2004 re-release of original Godzilla
New York-based RialtoPictures will re-release Ishiro Honda's original 1954 Japanese version of Godzilla in the US in spring 2004 in all its uncut glory tocoincide with the 50th anniversary of the film and character.The release will feature 40minutes of unseen footage - a far cry from the pared-down 1956 US ...
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Fox adds $11.2m on second weekend for Master And Commander
Master AndCommander pulled inanother $11.2m from international forays at the weekend, raising its internationalcumulative total to $32.8m.Fox International's naval adventure opened top inAustralia on $2.3m from 324 screens.There wereseveral good second weekend holds, with Spain adding $2m and dropping 24% for$5.1m and the UK adding $1.9m in its second wide ...
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CTFDI crossed the $1bn mark in 2003
Powered by the internationalsuccess of T3, Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle and Bad Boys II, Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International (CTFDI) has passed$1bn in ticket sales for 2003.This marks the second timeboth of Sony Pictures Entertainment's international and domestic distributiondivisions have passed the mark after domestic declared $1bn in sales lastmonth.It ...
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NETHERLANDS
Dutch director Alex van Warmerdam's Grimm may have proved slightly too dark a comedy for local audiences this weekend but its 16 print release was enough to see it lay a trail of breadcrumbs to tenth place on the Netherlands' chart.Distributed by A-Film Distribution the film, a nightmarish fairytale full ...
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ICELAND
The romance and Christmas spirit of Love Actually took Icelanders by storm this weekend, and the new release steered clear of both Finding Nemo and Master And Commander and landed on the top spot with a 887 admission screen average, twice that of Pixar's animated hit.The rest of the top ...
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GERMANY
Columbia TriStar's release of the Colin Farrell/Samuel L. Jackson police actioner S.W.A.T. stormed the German box office at No. 2 with an impressive $ 4,125 screen average from its 609 prints to take $2.5m on its first weekend (without previews), but was still eclipsed by Buena Vista's Finding Nemo ...